Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon several rich Japanese withdrew their deposits from National City's Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected...
...Trubee Davison was never to see active service abroad. In July 1917 his plane crashed in Huntington Harbor and he was extricated from the wreckage more dead than alive. His back was broken. Specialists predicted he would never walk again. But he did, and now he plays tennis. He returned to Yale, was graduated in 1919. The Navy awarded him its cross for "exceptionally meritorious service...
Members of the New York Stock Exchange who chanced to walk past the corner of Madison Avenue and 43rd Street in the last month have been taken aback by what they saw. In the long narrow office where once was a dressy branch of defunct Pynchon & Co., the firm of Pirnie, Simons & Co., Inc., members of no exchange and backed by celebrated Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews, has what its salesmen call "our store...
...homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from the Marine Corps corral, rode it at a walk up & down the mountain trails while shutters clucked, cranks whirled...
...American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. . . . The American squirrel ... is a large grey...